Friday, September 25, 2009

What A Day!

Subtitle: Confessions of a Shop-a-holic!

What a day we had yesterday!

Nancy (no blog) and I left bright and early to do our own quilt shop hop in NY and Vermont. Nancy is a friend and longarm quilter extraordinaire who worked her magic on my Lemoyne Star quilt that I pieced when my modem died about a month ago that you can see and read about here.

The main purpose of our trip was to visit a shop where Nancy buys some of the thread for her longarm machine. She currently has a quilt on the rack for which she needed more thread to complete.

Our first stop was at a relatively new quilt shop in the picturesque little town of Rouses Point, NY. Here’s Nancy pictured at the entrance to the shop.

Fibre Junction has only been open since May of this year but if you’re in the area, it’s definitely worth a visit, especially if you’re into Civil War and Reproduction fabrics.

Here’s Nancy paying for her purchases…

and here’s what I bought…

From there, we crossed the bridge over Lake Champlain into Vermont. We proceeded down Interstate 89 to Williston and to our next stop…Strawberry & Rhubarb.

Nancy bought her thread and I bought some fat quarters which will be used for some of the blocks for the ‘Aqua and Red’ swap which you can link to from my sidebar.

From there we headed just down the road, made a right turn at the first traffic lights and proceeded about 1. 5 miles to Sew Many Treasures.

I was only able to obtain one inside photo of the shop before the battery on my camera died.

Here, I bought some of the most amazing turkey red fabrics.

Aren’t they stunning? All the way home I kept on repeating how much I ♥ these fabrics!

From there we proceeded to Yankee Pride. This is another great shop in Essex Junction, VT.

Here I managed to find some fabric from the Sampler Collection by Windham Fabrics that was being sold at 50% off so I bought all the remaining yardage that was left on the bolt to use as backing for a future project.

Our shopping extravaganza lasted about 10 hours…and we didn’t even stop for lunch! I arrived back home at about 8 o’clock last evening, tired, hungry and ever so happy with my purchases and especially my day.

39 comments:

wow, what a great day kaaren. loving your purchases too, especially the sampler fabric, it's to die for.hope you're not too tired today? speaking of which... i'm off to bed. only stayed up to read your post!hugs,julie xoxoxoxo

Oh My what a lovely day you and your friend had--wished I could of come along too---I have learned when going on a shop-hop to always carry cheese and some crackers--they are always helpful and they do help one so you can think of fabric and goodies not your tummy!!!! I love some of the red and aqua's --i am not in that swap--but am looking for those colors in fabrics anyway!!!! have a great week-end--hugs, Di

What a fun day! My sister and I like to hit all the shops in my area when she comes out to CA, but we have totally opposite taste in fabrics so it can be a challenge to pick a shop! Those Turkey reds are great--I've been looking for some too.

Thank you for the visit and the nice review! I love all of those shops you mentioned! Yankee Pride is a personal favourite as the owner Judy is the one responsible for my quilting obsession! ;o) Keep well!

How fun! I think Nancy gave your the perfect excuse to have to have a shop hop. These shops looks soooo tempting. I enjoyed being able to peek inside them. I am now going to scour the internet as I have fallen in love with the Williamsburg Sampler fabric and just have to find some. It would even make a great center by using one as a center of a medallion quilt.

What a wonderful day you and your friend had. I am a little bit jealous. Why do I live so far away from these lovely shops! The one with the Civil War Fabric, ooohhh....The fabric you bought: absolutely fabulous!A day like this is "a day with a star" (we say that in the Netherlands, when a day is very special, in Canada too?)

I ♥ my friends

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